Nokia Sports Tracker - quick look

Nokia's Sports Tracker is a sophisticated GPS logger application, its focus is tracking workouts, but it can also be used to log tracks generally.  It can export to Google Earth, GPX, XML and CSV.

There is also a companion website.  When you upload a track to the site, the phone can check for photos taken during the track (I presume it is doing timestamp matching) and upload them and place them on the track.  It doesn't auto-rotate photos though.

I thought I had taken a great track of walking to Parliament Hill, but while I had started Sports Tracker with a New Workout - walking, and had seen "searching for satellites", I didn't realize that I also had to click on Start.

Here's a short track of me walking in downtown Ottawa instead.

http://sportstracker.nokia.com/nts/workoutdetail/index.do?id=105491

It displays altitude, speed etc.  There is a big glitch at the beginning as I am coming out of a building and it hasn't quite acquired the location fix yet.  I am walking through urban canyon, so the track is not too bad, considering.

The app can talk to a Bluetooth GPS, in my case it's using the internal GPS on the Nokia N82.

UPDATE 2008-03-16: A nice clean track of me walking down Bank Street to Parliament Hill (the track I thought I was taking yesterday).  I waited until it had a good ("green") GPS signal before starting the recording.  Possible "urban canyon" data glitch at about 1.25km.

http://sportstracker.nokia.com/nts/workoutdetail/index.do?id=106711